Job 18
1 But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying:
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2 How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.
“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
3 Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?
Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
4 You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place?
You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
5 Will not the light of the impious be put out, and the flame of his fire refuse to shine?
“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire will not shine.
6 Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished.
The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
7 His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably.
The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
8 For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web.
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
9 His heel will be held in a snare, and thirst will rage against him.
A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
10 A trap has been hidden for him in the earth, and a decoy, along his path.
A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
11 Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet.
Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.
12 Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs.
His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
13 Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.
The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.
14 Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king.
He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.
15 Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle.
There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
16 Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.
His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.
17 Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets.
His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
18 He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.
He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19 Neither his offspring, nor his descendants, will exist among his people, nor will there be any remnants in his country.
He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
20 The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror.
Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
21 And so, these are the tabernacles of the sinful, and this the place of he who does not know God.
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who does not know God.”
